WW2 British Guns
With defeat to the Axis an unacceptable reality, British engineers went on to develop some of the most recognizable firearms of World War 2.
1905
The Arisaka Type 38 (Rifle, Meiji 38th Year) was the standard rifle issued to the Imperial Japanese infantry. The weapon had...
1927
The Ballester-Molina is nothing more than an Argentine locally-produced copy of the successful American Colt M1911 series of ...
1938
The Besa Mk 3 was a tank and armored vehicle-mounted machine gun originally based on a Czechoslovakian vz. 37 (ZB53) tank mac...
1937
Recognizing the increased reliance on armor by the world's armies in the lead-up to World War 2, the British Army issued a re...
1938
The BREN Light Machine Gun was the standard light machine gun of the British Army and Commonwealth forces throughout World Wa...
1935
The Browning High-Power (or Fabrique Nationale FN GP35 - "GP" for "Grande Puissance") has a lineage dating back to the origin...
1918
The M1918 BAR ("Browning Automatic Rifle") was born out of the World War One idea of a single soldier armed with the power of...
1919
Like many of the infantry weapons made available to US servicemen in the Second World War, the M1919 shared the common histor...
1921
Very few machine guns in the history of the world own a legacy such as that of famous the Browning M2 heavy machine gun serie...
1911
The Colt model M1911 series of pistols is one of the most successful small arms designs of the 20th Century - and in all of w...
1943
The De Lisle silenced carbine was developed during 1942 as a time when the outcome of World War 2 was still very much in doub...
1933
The Fabrique Nationale FN M2HB (HB = "Heavy Barrel") is essentially a Belgian copy of the American Browning design with sligh...
1943
Unlike the American, German and Soviet armies of World War 2, the British Army was never as large a proponent of the man-port...
1909
Design of the M1909 was brought about by a new French requirement looking to provide ground elements with a "light" automatic...
1914
During the late 1800s, there only existed a few proven "true" machine gun concepts anywhere in the world. Countless attempts ...
1941
The Johnson Model 1941 faced off against the M1 Garand rifle before the start of hostilities that became World War 2. The rif...
1941
After the heroic evacuation of the Dunkirk survivors and the subsequent Fall of France in 1940, the British future was an unn...
1895
The Lee-Enfield series of rifles is one of the most successful bolt-action rifles of all time. First debuted in November 1895...
1908
The German P08 pistol (or "Pistole 1928" or "P'08" or "Luger") was one of the more famous German-based pistol designs of the ...
1942
The American arms industry reached all new heights with its commitment in World War 2. Much of the existing stock of guns wer...
1938
The Thompson series of submachine guns (not quite a pistol yet not a full-fledged machine gun) began life in 1919 following W...
1917
Britain had already begun the task of replacing their Short Magazine Lee Enfield (SMLE) infantry rifles in the years precedin...
1945
Recoilless rifles are a specialized category of battlefield weaponry that see less service today than in the years following ...
1896
One of the most recognizable early-form semi-automatic pistols became the Mauser C96 series. The C96 shape was classic with i...
1915
As World War broadened across Europe following the events of 1914, design work began on a new standard hand grenade for the B...
1938
The Ordnance ML 2-inch Mortar Mk II was an infantry-based, squad-level mortar weapon system standardized throughout the Briti...
1925
Among several of the unsung British war weapons to see action in World War 2 was the Ordnance, ML Mortar, 3-inch. The weapon ...
1941
Despite its obvious battlefield value today, world militaries took some time to warm up to the idea of procuring and fielding...
1942
The PIAT Mk I (or Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank Mk I) system was the principle anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade launcher f...
1941
Before the arrival of the various storied American firearms of World War 2 such as the M1 Thompson, M1 Garand and M1 Carbine,...
1903
The M1903 "Springfield" bolt-action service rifle was the standard infantry rifle of the American Army throughout its partici...
1941
The British STEN submachine gun is one of those rare firearms in history that was born of desperation and turned into a war-w...
1915
While mortars largely fell out of interest prior to World War 1, the stalemate of trench warfare forced national armies to re...
1912
Like most other medium support machine systems born around the turn of the century, the British Vickers Medium Machine Gun or...
1925
The Vickers-Berthier was a British light machine gun design originally introduced by a Frenchman, passed on by the Americans ...
1939
The Welrod was designed in the early part of World War 2 after a very short development period by the British War Office. The...
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